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Well-known Canadian animal activist Jenny McQueen and some of her co-defendants join us to discuss their guilty verdicts for breaking and entering and obstructing a peace officer. In 2019, they entered a Canadian pig breeding facility in a Direct Action Everywhere campaign and videotaped the horrific conditions, demanding action for the helpless animals in very grim conditions. While handing down the guilty verdicts, even the judge noted that “several of those images are impactful, poignant, troubling, and disturbing.” So, why are they being punished for blowing the whistle? UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell hosts this compelling panel discussion.

31-Day Food Revolution is a guide to liberation from a toxic food world. Author Ocean Robbins reveals the secrets the industrialized food industry doesn’t want people to know, how specific ingredients and methods could be making people sick, and what they can do about it. And he shows how to use the amazing power of delicious food to heal the gut, lose excess weight, and lower the risk for disease — all while contributing to a healthier planet. In his nonjudgmental and down-to-earth way, Ocean Robbins meets people wherever they are on their personal journey with food, helping make small improvements that lead to big results. For more, visit www.oceanrobbins.com.

A Swiss couple decides to use their wedding as a chance to make a statement about animal rights and all hell breaks loose. Get an inside peak at a hot new vegan movie in production. You can be a part of this really UNIQUE film by donating via this IndieGoGo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/humankindness-the-animal-dilemma-documentary-film#/ An open rescue of a lamb in a wedding dress … need we say more? This is a MUST SEE MOVIE! Now, meet Anja & Matej Glivar, the amazing husband and wife team whose daring escapade saved a life and got them one of the wildest weddings in history! UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell conducts the interview.

This brilliant new book exposes The Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs. Get it here: https://amzn.to/3VqzPnq Edited by Hope Bohanec, it can wake up animal loving people scammed into thinking they are not hurting animals when they buy meat and dairy! This is a HUGE part of the puzzle when it comes to transitioning our culture to plant-based! With contributions from Robert Grillo of @FreefromHarm, Dr. Sailesh Rao of @ClimateHealers, Dr Lisa Barca, Eugene Soul Eubanks of @soul_eubanks, Carol J. Adams of @cja_from_dallas, and others, this book is a game-changer. UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell interviews Hope Bohanec, Executive Director, @CompassionateLiving.

Elephant advocate Courtney Fern brings us the very latest on UnchainedTV LIVE! A proposed law would ban elephant captivity in New York City. This would mark a major turning point for animal rights. Visit: https://www.nonhumanrights.org/ The bill builds on NYC’s existing ban on elephants in circuses. If passed, it would be the first elephant captivity ban in the US passed in a City that currently has elephants in captivity. It is supported by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) and Voters For Animal Rights (VFAR). It would mean “Happy” the elephant, held alone in the Bronx Zoo, would be freed to a sanctuary.

Meet the organizers of Vegan Earth Day March, set to happen in 45 cities around the world on... Earth Day, which is Saturday, April 22nd, 2023. To attend a Vegan Earth Day March, or start one in your city or town, visit: https://www.veganearthdaymarch.org/ Our panelists explain why it's so crucial to connect what we eat with climate change. You can lower your climate price tag enormously 3 times a day by eating a plant-based diet, which has a much lower emissions footprint than meat or dairy. Our panel includes Dr. Sailesh Rao, founder of Climate Healers, Amy Jean Davis of Los Angeles Animal Save, and Vegan Earth Day March co-founders Sarina Farb and Chelsea Davis. UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell moderates.

Jenny Goldfarb is a powerhouse entrepreneur with a huge heart. Find out how she has accomplished what many saw as impossible! Growing up with a rich family tradition of deli food, she went vegan for the animals. Then, she found herself craving a classic New York deli sandwich. So, she decided to make a pastrami sandwich, but make it 100% plant-based! It was so delicious, her non-vegan friends could hardly believe it contained no meat. What started as a kitchen hobby has turned into a spectacular business. Jenny went on Shark Tank and wowed the judges, particularly Mark Cuban, who invested. This fabulous, female founder has continued to break barriers. Mrs. Goldfarb’s Unreal Deli is now available in many major supermarkets and big box stores. Jenny has also expanded her recipe repertoire to vegan steak and vegan turkey slices and beyond! Visit: https://unrealdeli.com/

Victory, as the decades-long battle to free Lolita, the killer whale, has finally resulted in the decision to release her from the Miami Seaquarium. Lolita was violently captured more than half a century ago, ripped from her pod in 1970. Now 56 years old, she is to be returned to her home in the Pacific Northwest. With relentless protests, PETA continually reminded the world of Lolita’s imprisonment. What does this victory mean for the animal rights movement? Watch and find out. UnchainedTV will speak to Jared Goodman, General Counsel of Animal Law at the PETA Foundation and William Neal, the writer-producer-director of the feature documentary Long Gone Wild. Currently streaming on UnchainedTV, this brilliant film picks up where Blackfish ends. https://watch.unchainedtv.com/videos/long-gone-wild

Get involved with Woodstock Farm Sanctuary’s 2023 campaign to convince Tractor Supply to stop selling baby birds. There’s a petition you can sign at https://woodstocksanctuary.org. The sanctuary is also urging the NY State Fair Birthing Center to end the live birthing demos of dairy cows in 2023. 'The petition is at the bottom of this page: https://woodstocksanctuary.org/woodstock-blog/ourfaircoalition ' The Sanctuary is doing SO much, caring for more than 380 rescued farmed animals, providing tours, educating, offering a fabulous and elegant barn for overnight visitors. And, Woodstock’s Rachel McCrystal has a chapter in the thought-provoking new book on Effective Altruism called: The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism, available here: https://amzn.to/3ndih1c We invite the NY State Fair, Tractor Supply or anyone from the animal agriculture industry on at any time. We would love to dialogue with you.

PETA’s Kathy Guillermo, Senior Vice President for Laboratory Investigations has breaking news on several fronts! PETA has just pledged ONE MILLION DOLLARS to put 1,000 illegally imported long-tailed macaques into the Texas Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary! PETA is also battling America’s cruel and morally bankrupt National Institutes of Health for funding a notorious Columbian primate research center. Authorities there seized over 100 monkeys who were in horrific conditions. Yet, our NIH twiddles its thumbs. Join PETA to demand change now! Visit https://www.peta.org/ to help save these innocent victims of greed and hubris!

Bundles of beagles were freed from a private contract research testing laboratory thanks to the relentless work of Beagle Freedom Project. Many of these beagles had never touched grass, experienced the outdoors or played with a toy. Some are over 8 years of age. Instead, they were tattooed with a number. Beagle Freedom Project President Shannon Keith tells us the story of how she and her team whisked these beagles to freedom and transitioned them to loving foster homes, where they will get a name and kindness, for the first time in their lives. Please visit https://bfp.org/ to get involved.

Get the latest breaking news on Mercy for Animals and The Transfarmation Project, helping farmers transition out of chicken factory farming and into growing hemp and other plant-based products, often using the same sheds. MFA’s CEO and President, Leah Garcés, will also bring us the latest on the Farm Bill, which is riddled with outrageous subsidies to animal agriculture and is coming up for renewal. You’ll learn how you can support the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act (IAA) to protect animals in the 2023 Farm Bill. Mercy for Animals is on the forefront of legislative changes to give factory farmed animals relief from brutality and cruelty. Contact your members of Congress here: mercyforanimals.org/IAA

The Animal Activist Legal Defense Project, led by renowned attorney Carter Dillard, is now representing animal activists all over the United States. Recently, there was a fascinating legal summit unpacking the historic acquittal of two Direct Action Everywhere animal activists who faced over a decade in prison for rescuing two sick piglets from a Utah factory farm. The summit tried to figure out what exactly what made the jurors, in a conservative Utah county, find the defendants, Wayne Hsiung and Paul Picklesimer, NOT GUILTY on all counts. And, the summit also discussed the legal underpinnings of the Right to Rescue movement, which says: when you see an animal suffering you have the right to rescue that animal, even if it means going onto private property and removing the animal. Now, attorney Carter Dillard talks to UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell about all of this! Are we hitting the animal rights LEGAL tipping point?

Farm Sanctuary's Gene Baur would love you to visit this extraordinary organization's Acton, California location, a short drive from the city of Los Angeles. There you will meet happy, serene, rescued farmed animals, including cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys and chickens. There's a Valentine's Day event on Saturday, February 11th at 1pm pacific. Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/40x232b You can also visit https://www.farmsanctuary.org/ to learn about other events and opportunities to visit Farm Sanctuary's locations on either coast. Here's how the organization describes its mission: Farm Sanctuary was founded in 1986 to combat the abuses of factory farming, advocate for institutional reforms, and encourage a new awareness and understanding of farm animals and the benefits of cruelty-free, plant-based living. In recent years, science has confirmed the inhumane and destructive impact of animal agriculture — a food system based on interrelated oppression and injustice. As the founding farm animal Sanctuary in the U.S., Farm Sanctuary has rescued and provided refuge for countless survivors of the animal agriculture system. Today, at Farm Sanctuary’s Los Angeles, CA and Watkins Glen, NY Sanctuaries you will find nearly 800 rescued animals — each with an individual story to tell. These survivors are ambassadors, representing the billions of farm animals currently in the system. They, and others like them, have changed the hearts and minds of a generation.

VegTech is the Plant-based Innovation & Climate ETF that goes by the symbol EATV. VegTech™ Invest is an investment management company that advises EATV. EATV invests in companies that are actively innovating with plants and plant-derived ingredients and that produce primary products that are animal-free. Elysabeth Alfano, the CEO of VegTech Invest, believes these companies positively impact climate change, planetary health and sustainability, human health, and animal health. She also believes that we are on the cusp of a long-term secular trend that will result in the disrupting of the global food and materials supply chain for a more efficient, climate friendly and cruelty-free system. The ETF is intended to provide exposure to this trend. For more information, visit https://EATV.VegTechInvest.com VegTech Invest notes investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.

Lion Ark: this award-winning documentary feels more like an action movie, complete with secret missions, undercover operations, intelligence briefings, nerve-wracking confrontations, extremely dramatic rescues, and high-speed races against time. But, unlike most action movies, this plot revolves around real life or death… for lions. And, you can watch it right now, because this highly acclaimed film is STREAMING FOR FREE ON UnchainedTV. Click here to watch now: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/lion-ark Now, go behind the scenes with the heroic team from Animal Defenders International, two gutsy globe-trotting rescuers who are fearless as they carry out their mission to rescue lions trapped in circus hell in Bolivia! Spoiler alert: get ready for a joyous HAPPY ENDING! Get involved! Visit www.ad-international.org/adi_home

The world’s hottest vegan chef, winner of the groundbreaking vegan cooking show PEELED, Nicole Derseweh, talks to UnchainedTV’s Jane Velez-Mitchell. The wild and, by turns, dramatic and hilarious 3-episode vegan cooking competition is streaming NOW on UnchainedTV. Click here to watch Episode One: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/peeled/videos/peeled-episode-one Nicole is also launching her new brand of vegan lox. LOVE LOX is a whole food, plant-based and eco-friendly solution to traditional lox! You can enjoy LOVE LOX in any dish where you’d use traditional lox - from lox and bagels, sushi rolls, pizza, sandwiches, blini’s and so much more. Not only is our LOVE LOX mind-blowingly delicious, it is cruelty-free and provides more omegas per serving then its fishy counterparts! Visit https://eatlovelox.com. Nicole also run The Martha Project, which brings quality, plant-based meals and human connection to those without shelter. Visit: https://www.themarthaproject.org. Watch the entire PEELED series here: https://watch.unchainedtv.com/peeled

Ray Star is a multi-award-winning author from England. Her debut novels, Earthlings (The Beginning) and Dominion (Earthlings book 2) have gone on to become Amazon bestsellers in multiple categories and the final installment of the trilogy; Land of Hope and Glory (Earthlings book 3) is eagerly awaited by readers and set for release in 2023. Get the books now at: www.raystarbooks.com. Ray's passion for animals inspired her to close her PR business of over 15 years to dedicate her time to #WritingForNature. The Earthlings trilogy is the tale of a magick-born girl named Peridot, living in a dystopian world where animals rule and humans are enslaved, and she is destined to either save or destroy them. Ray named each book in the trilogy after documentaries that made her go vegan, after taking part in Veganuary in 2018. Those life-changing documentaries are streaming on UnchainedTV, the global, TV network for the compassionate plant-based lifestyle. Watch them here: Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix https://watch.unchainedtv.com/videos/earthlings-10th-anniversary-edition Dominion https://watch.unchainedtv.com/documentaries/videos/dominion

It goes by many names: clean meat, cultured meat, no-kill meat. Now, Atelier Meats, a company on the leading edge of this hi-tech food industry, talks to UnchainedTV's Jane Velez-Mitchell about how this cutting edge technology could save billions of animals from slaughter and the planet from climate catastrophe. Meet Dr. Mohit Bhatia, the co-founder of Atelier Meats, which uses biotechnology and tissue engineering to pioneer meat without killing animals. https://www.ateliermeats.com/ Dr. Bhatia will address: Top five ways cultured meat reduces greenhouse gas emissions What makes cultured meat a better alternative to traditional farming and industrial meat production? How much land is used for cultured meat compared to traditional farms for industrial agricultural products? Why does cultured meat require less? Why cultured meat uses SO much less water.

Tell the USDA to Update Archaic Animal Transport Regulations! SIGN NOW: It takes a second: https://act.mercyforanimals.org/page/tell-usda-update-archaic-animal-transport-regulations/petition You’ve likely seen trucks on the highway packed with pigs, chickens, or other farmed animals. In crowded trailers or stacked crates, animals suffer long, grueling journeys with no food or water. These animals are usually on their way to slaughter, meaning their final hours or days are some of their most harrowing. And transport trucks are not designed to protect animals from harsh weather. In winter, farmed animals endure below-freezing conditions and are exposed to snow, rain, and frigid winds. Many die of hypothermia. Some even freeze to the floors or sides of trailers. In summer, temperatures inside trucks rise to well over 100°F. Many animals suffer heat stress, asphyxiation, and heart attacks. This is unacceptable suffering, and U.S. laws are nowhere near sufficient to protect these animals. Many animals suffer agonizing deaths from dehydration, suffocation, and severe injuries due to overcrowding. Animal transport regulations in the United States are downright disgraceful. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Transportation have the authority to draft regulations for and enforce laws related to animal transport. Please join Mercy For Animals in calling on the USDA and Department of Transportation to modernize U.S. animal transport laws by providing species-appropriate space, rest time, food, water, and protection from extreme temperatures.